tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post1420160026150475115..comments2012-05-26T07:51:09.056-04:00Comments on Bookroll: The Wreck of the River of StarsJoshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467322140216809690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post-10222333212253633032008-03-28T09:18:00.000-04:002008-03-28T09:18:00.000-04:00I returned Firestar the first time I checked it ou...I returned <I>Firestar</I> the first time I checked it out (maybe 6 months ago) without reading it because I heard it had a lot of sex in it. Then I checked it out again about a month ago and started it last night, but I'm not going to finish it. I agree about the sex, although flawed characters that grow or change (or have the possibility to do so but for some reason reject it) are not necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>I have the sequel (I think), <I>Falling Stars</I>, because I picked it up at a book sale not realizing it wasn't standalone. And there are two more books in the series, too—but there are so many other books to read, I probably won't bother trying them.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment! Sometimes I wonder whether anyone still reads this. I'm not even sure how you found it in the first place; I got the impression that you must have done a search on Juliet Marillier, since I think those were the first posts you commented on.<BR/><BR/>I have been reading, but haven't been posting as much because I haven't been finishing as many books and I don't want to review something just to bash it. I also started thinking that a book deserves a little more effort on a review than I usually give; I started writing reviews for <I>The Orphan's Tales</I> (both volumes; I think I reviewed the first earlier, but I realized how feminist they are when I read the second and reread the first*), <I>The Porcelain Dove</I>, Cherie Priest's <I>Four and Twenty Blackbirds</I> (I might yet finish that review), and just haven't been finishing them because I'm not sure what to say. It's also easy to save the file and put off finishing them, of course.<BR/><BR/>* (Not that the goldfish who was once a dragon didn't amuse me, but at the same time there is a great deal of sadness and political innuendo in the stories.)Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467322140216809690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post-73019630129011268712008-03-27T17:55:00.000-04:002008-03-27T17:55:00.000-04:00I recently read his _Firestorm_, and, like you, I ...I recently read his _Firestorm_, and, like you, I didn't find it anything like _Eifelheim_, which, I guess, wasn't a surprise, considering what _Eifelheim_ is. The characters were almost all flawed, and there was a lot of sexual activity.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.com